Dr. Kenneth Thibodeau is Director of the Electronic Records Archives
(ERA) Program Management Office at the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA). ERA is NARA's strategic initiative to build the
archives of the future, a virtual archives capable of preserving all
types of electronic records and delivering them over the Internet to
future generations of users on future generations of technology. He has
29 years experience in archives and records management, and is an
internationally recognized expert in electronic records. Dr. Thibodeau
taught at the University of Notre Dame and was Chief of the Records
Management Branch of the National Institutes of Health before coming to
NARA in 1988. In 1996, he served as the Director of the Department of
Defense (DoD) Records Management Task Force, which revised DoD's
Records Management Instruction and developed the DoD Records Management
Application Standard, 5015.2-STD. He studied at Fordham University in
New York and the University of Strasbourg, France. He earned a Ph.D. in
the history and sociology of science from the University of
Pennsylvania. A Fellow of the Society of American Archivists, he has
published over 30 papers and spoken at more than 140 conferences around
the world.